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2013考研英语二 · 阅读理解 Text 2
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2013考研英语二阅读理解 Text 2 原文
A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and who would make some money and then go home. Between 1908 and 1915, about 7 million people arrived while about 2 million departed. About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good. They even had an affectionate nickname, “uccelli di passaggio,” birds of passage.
Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or brand them as aliens to be kicked out. That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it. We don't need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.
Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage. They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas. They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them. They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.
With or without permission, they straddle laws, jurisdictions and identities with ease. We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever. We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.
Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle. Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes, including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
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27C
28C
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30D
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26“Birds of passage” refers to those who ______.
答案A
解析原文将“birds of passage”称为“had no intention to stay…make some money and then go home”，并称其为往来如候鸟者；今日同类人“prefer to come and go”。故A“在外国暂时停留”正确。B“永远离开故国”与“then go home”相反；C仅指跨大西洋移民，过窄；D“海外永久工作”与来去自由不符。
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27It is implied in Paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US ______.
答案C
解析第二段指出将移民简单分为legal/illegal“contributed mightily to our broken immigration system”，并称“We don't need more categories”，而须改变思维方式以“solve our immigration challenges”。故C“应调整以应对挑战”正确。A与“don't need more categories”相反；B未提放松管控；D“political paralysis”说明尚未靠政治手段修好。
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28According to the author, today’s birds of passage want ______.
答案C
解析今日候鸟式移民“prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them”，作者也希望他们能“be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever”。故C“来去的自由”正确。A未强调财政激励；B无“全球认可”信息；D他们从事各类工作，并非只求正规岗位。
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29The author suggests that the birds of passage today should be treated ______.
答案B
解析作者主张“look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal”，开辟“middle ground”，容纳“not easy to accomplish legally”的路径。故B“给予法律上的包容”正确。A“忠实伙伴”、C“经济优待”、D“强大对手”均无依据，文中强调的是态度与制度弹性而非敌友或金钱。
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30The most appropriate title for this text would be ______.
答案D
解析全文批判将新来者硬分为“legal or illegal, good or bad”导致体系失灵，主张超越对错二元。D“Legal or Illegal: Big Mistake”最贴切。A把“come and go”本身当错误；B、C的“Great Risk”偏离主旨，文中强调的是分类僵化之弊而非风险。
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